(a)Live and kicking!

OAI3 CERN, Geneva, February 2004

Lilian van der Vaart, programme manager DARE

Content

DARE

Academic information

How did we do this?

National projectteam wrote specifications January –May• Report published on www.surf.nl/DARE

Approval and kick-off late May

Projectleadersgroup • coordination of implementation phase, discussion/decisions on issues

and dilemmas; e.g. digital/non-digital objects, persistent identifyer

Metadata working group • research and recommendations on metadata issues to

projectleadersgroup

How did we do this?

Local implementations by local people• Assistance from colleagues for installation of software funded

Demonstrator developed by community manager and i-TOR• PR-tool and test of interoperability

Extranet and discussion list for ongoing discussions, exchange of info/documents

Approach: individual responsibility, joint action

Each university

Is responsible for its own repository

Has its own motivation for introduction

Decides itself which services it wants to offer

Joining forces

To create greatest effect

To be able to do the job

To be able to realize interoperability

Approach

No single prescribed standard solution

Create frame of reference, set preconditions

Try out different approaches in concrete projects

Do locally what can be done locally, restrict centralized activity to bare essentials

Pragmatic, pioneering, learning by doing

At both data and services level

2004

Start up filling of repositories on regular basis• PR

• Tender

• Workshops on organisational issues

Continued development data level, e.g. persistent identifyer, metadata issues

Development interface for long-term preservation

International knowledge exchange and cooperation• Technical and policy issues, organisation and business models

Data and Services

Institute X Institute Y Institute Z

Local Services Local Services Local Services

DAT

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Peer review

Copyright management

Virtual communitySubject classification

Subject portal

Research Info OnlineConference papers

online

DARE programme and status

Activities divided in sets:Data level

Define specifications repository (set 3) - doneBuild repositories (set 5) - startedRealise interoperability (set 4) – in the course of autumn 2003Fill repositories – start in autumn 2003

Service levelServices projects (set 6) – tenders, first tender 2003Development of (policy for) long term preservation, metadata and access control (set 7) – 2004 - 2006Linking with digital learning environments for educational purposes (set 8) – 2004 - 2006

Activities and targets 2003

1. Realisation of repositories: targets 2003 = DARE-SCORE• Speed: within 6 months working repository at each institute• Cooperation: at least one department/group works with

repository• Openness: project managers keep log on DARE Extranet

about progress, with highlights and bloopers• Results: each repository contains x objects, query over all

repositories produces meaningful result• Efficiency: (plan for) organisation, workflow, procedures and

cost estimate available

Speed

Cooperation

Openness

Results

Efficiency

Tender projects 2003

• Proceedings-online publishing tool• Peer review tool• Archiving, Personal pages and Printing on Demand• Copyright Management Module• Open Research Information Infrastructure Online• National Database of Students’ Theses • Distributed Africana Repositories Community

Demo’s / products available Spring 2004